ACCORDING TO A NEW SURVEY FROM THE APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION…… KENTUCKY CONTINUES TO HAVE THE MOST ECONOMICALLY
DEPRESSED APPALACHIAN COUNTIES IN THE COUNTRY….
ALL BUT THREE OF THE COMMONWEALTH 54-APPALACHIN COUNTIES ARE EITHER ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED OR AT RISK OF BECOMING ECONOMICALLY
DISTRESSED…..ONLY CLARK, GARRARD AND MADISON RANK AS TRANSITIONAL COUNTIES….THOSE BETWWEEN THE STRONGEST AND WEAKEST
ECONOMICALLY……WHILE EIGHTCOUNTIES…..INCLUDING HART….ARE CONSIDERED AT RISK……
THE OTHER 43 ARE IN THE BOTTOM 10-PERCENT NATIONWIDE…..AND OF THE 423 TOTAL APPALACHIAN COUNTIES THAT SPAN 13-STATES…..KENTUCKY HAS THE
MOST COUNTIES IN DISTRESS…..